In America , France's leading philosopher of postmodernism took to the freeways to produce a collection of traveler's tales from the land of hyper reality. From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night-"a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity"- Baudrillard mixes apercus and observations with a wicked sense of fun to provide a unique insight into the country that dominates the world.

In this new edition, leading cultural critic and novelist Geoff Dyer offers a thoughtful and perceptive take on the continuing resonance of Baudrillard's book in Obama's America.

"Since de Tocqueville, French thinkers have been fascinated with America. But when it comes to mysterious paradoxes and lyrical complexity no French intellectual matches Jean Baudrillard in contemplating the New World. He has become a sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left." (The New York Times)

Prophet of the apocalypse, hysterical lyricist of panic, obsessive recounter of the desolation of the postmodern scene. (The Guardian )

Occasionally provocative and almost always infuriating … America is filled with perceptive, almost poetic observations. (Rolling Stone )